And it is too bad because it takes something positive, like self-empowerment, and it turns into into a psuedoscientific religion that denies that bad luck exists.
It's too bad that you didn't watch the whole thing, because you might have discovered that this isn't the real theme. I don't think the movie meant to point the finger at people for their own bad luck, however, I will suggest that a great deal of people 'suffer' in this world because they have an unfortunate viewpoint - be that perpetual negativity, the inability to be confident in their abilities, or things of that nature. If you don't believe with your whole heart that you can achieve some specific 'stretch' goal, you'll never get there. Why? You won't try. Why would you waste your time on something that you don't believe that you can achieve? In the real world, there are countless people working beneath their level because they don't believe they can do better, people who live in abusive relationships because they don't believe they can get out of them, people who suffer financially because they have addictions, people who work for 'the man' and hate it, fearful of taking the risk and becoming an entrepreneur (though they may have the skill to pull it off). This happens all the time. So, are these people the cause of their own suffering? Absolutely, and without question.
I think that the premise behind the Secret is reasonable. I don't think that the "Law of Attraction" and the existence of random luck (good or bad) are mutually exclusive.
I found the Secret to make perfect sense. It completely reconciles with my worldview. It's completely believable both on the surface, as well as at deeper levels. For example, if I spend some time everyday not just visualizing something that I want, but attempting to experience it in my imagination, my mind becomes tricked into thinking that I'm being rewarded with something I want, and releases dopamine. That dopamine stimulates the creative part of my brain. So now, I've created the conditions where there is something very specific on my mind, with frequency, that I really want, and my creativity is stimulated with those images fresh in my mind. If I do this often enough, eventually I'm going to start thinking of ways to make that thing happen. Because that's what I'm focusing my mind upon.
